Ugh… fire season. San Diego has been hit hard twice in the recent past; Santa Barbara is burning as we speak. Hadn’t even thought of the green house gases added to the atmosphere by fires! Sometimes I truly weep for the planet.

Hi Anne, I recommend you consider reading Bjorn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist. He should have named it The Optimistic Environmentalist or The Realistic Environmentalist. “The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence.” The book is chockablock with facts about the world we inhabit. You’ll come away hopeful.